Emancipation+and+Reconstruction


 * Essential Questions:**


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 * Key Terms and People:**

Close reading of the Emancipation Proclamation The Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th and 15th amendments) South Carolina Black Code Plessy v. Ferguson
 * Activities and Assessments:**

Frederick Douglass's Speech to the Thirty-second Annual Convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society Charles Chestnutt - "The Wife of His Youth" (Short Story) Paul Laurence Dunbar - "We Wear the Mask" (Poem) Booker T. Washington - Excerpt from "Up from Slavery" W.E.B. DuBois - Excerpt from "The Souls of Black Folk" James Weldon Johnson - "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (Song/Poem) and excerpt from "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"
 * Additional Readings:**